2025 GPF JUNIOR Rhythm Dance - Baa Baa Backstreets, Have You Any Boys?

[tangerine dream]

Costumes are giving 50 Shades of Grey, but I actually enjoy this program, and they are embracing the character.

I love how into it he is!

 

[skatingguy]

Iryna Pidgaina/Artem Koval
Coach: Galina Churilova
Music: Everybody (Backstreets Back), U Can’t Touch This

Sequential Twizzle W:4 M:4
Midline Step Sequence W:1 M:1
Rhumba 1st Sec 2 + kpNNYY
Quickstep 1st Sec 2 + kpNYYN (1 + kpNNYN after review)
Rotational Lift 4

I really enjoy their skating skills, and they carry nice speed, and power throughout the performance. This style of program isn't really in their wheelhouse, and the free dance is a much better fit.

63.43 = 1st Place

 

[tony]

1QS down to level 1 - NNYN

 

[skatingguy]

Hana Maria Aboian/Daniil Veselukhin
Coach: Melissa Gregory, Denis Petukhov
Music: Vogue by Madonna

Rhumba 1st Sec 3 + kpYYNY
Quickstep 1st Sec 2 + kpNYYN (1 + kpNNYN after review)
Sequential Twizzle W:4 M:4 (W:4 M:3 after review)
Midline Step Sequence W:2 M:2
Rotational Lift 4

It is my favourite rhythm dance of the season. I think Daniil had a checked rotation in the 2nd twizzle so we'll see if that changes the initial level given.

66.77 = 1st Place

 

[tony]

The reason I think these programs work so much better is because they have to keep moving, they aren't reliant on the stop and go choreography, and they are forced to sell the program throughout all of it from start to finish rather than in the step towards the end.

Anyways, score changes for them:
QS down to level 1 - NNYN
His twizzle down from 4 to 3

 

[victorskid]

Jr RD results:
1 Hana Maria ABOIAN / Daniil VESELUKHIN USA 66.77 36.19 30.58 7.68 7.71 7.61 0.00 #6
2 Iryna PIDGAINA / Artem KOVAL UKR 63.43 34.26 29.17 7.21 7.36 7.36 0.00 #5
3 Ambre PERRIER GIANESINI / Samuel BLANC KLAPERMAN FRA 62.35 33.42 28.93 7.25 7.29 7.21 0.00 #3
4 Jasmine ROBERTSON / Chase ROHNER USA 60.44 33.00 27.44 6.89 6.86 6.89 0.00 #2
5 Dania MOUADEN / Theo BIGOT FRA 59.90 32.77 27.13 6.86 6.79 6.75 0.00 #1
6 Layla VEILLON / Alexander BRANDYS CAN 52.70 25.86 26.84 6.93 6.54 6.71 0.00 #4


Protocols link: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...OR----QUAL000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

 

[skatingguy]

Maybe the most Generation Alpha score possible. If you know, you know.

 

[Allen]

The junior RD works much better with the theme than the senior version. I'm not even opposed to the Rhythm Sequence, but I think it should have levels and not be choreographic. I agree with Tony that the fact that the junior programs keep moving really enhances the program.

 

[Allen]

Maybe the most Generation Alpha score possible. If you know, you know.

My 4-year-old cousin ran up and whispered 6 7 into my ear at Thanksgiving and I wanted to run lol

 

[Yuri]

Simply an amazing performance by Hana and Daniil!!! It's also my favorite RD of the season in either Juniors or Seniors. Plus it's my favorite Vogue and they never stop moving fast with intricate choreography. Very well done and congratulations to them and their team of Denis, Melissa, and Oksana!

 

[Allen]

I think the Seniors, for whatever reason, don't want to give into the camp of the 90s. The juniors seem to enjoy that aspect.

 

[tangerine dream]

I think the Seniors, for whatever reason, don't want to give into the camp of the 90s. The juniors seem to enjoy that aspect.

Most of the top seniors are in their mid 30s, they lived through the 90s! For the juniors, the 90s theme is probably seen as retro.

 

[skatingguy]

Most of the top seniors are in their mid 30s, they lived through the 90s! For the juniors, the 90s theme is probably seen as retro.

The 90s is definitely retro now - the early aughts are becoming retro now. In today's segment of do you feel old - Hana Maria Aboian was born after the 2010 Winter Olympics.

 

[Sylvia]

RD playlist of all 6 videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuiPiC1Hk8eLj0A8TvIjCEk-dWbQsq9tW

 

[Kateri]

Only just caught up, and I'm sorry, but Aboian/Veslukhin are the most enjoyable skaters to watch in this entire GPF, junior or senior. It's true.

I could watch Hana-Maria all day. HOW is this tiny fifteen-year-old the hugest, most fabulous diva on the entire international scene? HOW IS SHE OUT-VOGUING GODDAMN GUILLAUME CIZERON?? By, like, 5000 miles, it's not even close. Does she know she's doing that? I really hope she does. I love her forever.

 

[PRlady]

That little girl probably thinks the 1990s were ancient history. She might as well be doing the frug or minuet for all that early Madonna means to her. And she knocked it out of the park!

 

[her grace]

Lovely to watch dances with actual steps. And the juniors matched the speed and tempo of the music way better than seniors.

 

[Wyliefan]

Catching up now, and thanks to a ridiculous camera angle and then no replay, I have only the haziest idea of what actually went wrong with V/B's twizzles. You had ONE JOB, cameraperson.

 

[Kateri]

Catching up now, and thanks to a ridiculous camera angle and then no replay, I have only the haziest idea of what actually went wrong with V/B's twizzles. You had ONE JOB, cameraperson.

It was bad, I agree. It looked to me like he stumbled out of the first twizzle so early that he couldn't even get enough rotations credit for Base level.